Population

everyday life. As years pass by human population is growing at an alarming rate and resources, in time, can and will become limited if proper steps aren’t taken now. During the 1970’s three men, John Holdren, Bary Commoner, and Paul Ehrlich developed a formula which measures the human impact on the environment. This formula I=PxAxT, refers to human being’s impact equals the product of its population multiplied by affluence and technology. “The world population is at 6.8 billion. That figure will rise

POPULATION EXPLOSION INTRODUCTION: Population explosion is condition where an organisms numbers exceeds carrying capacity of its habitat.It is a curse and is damaging to the development of the country and its society.The developing countries already facing lack in their resourses,and with the rapidly increasing population,the resourses available per person ,further leading to increased poverty,malnutrition and other large population related problems. The literal meaning of population is “the

1.) How can the growth of a population be slowed by its own numbers? Population can be slowed by its numbers because as the population grows, limiting factors become more present. You start as a small population with good resources plenty of food, not very much competition for food and ect. Then your population growth grows and after so many generations you come into limiting factors that your population growth has become too large and the competition for food is higher, also less food to go around

have been roaming the Earth for about 17,000 years. Over the last fifty years, human population grew faster than it has ever before. In the 1960s, the world population was at about 3 billion people, increasing to an estimate of 6 billion people by 1999. The expected growth of world population from 6 billion people in 1999 is about 9 billion people by 2044, causing the world to become overpopulated. The word “population” causes many different reactions and thoughts. For example, it stimulates anger because

What can you tell about a population by looking at its population pyramid? Population pyramid is a visual representation of a population and it’s distribution with relation to the young, old, female, and male individuals residing in a particular country or region. Each horizontal bar within the pyramid represents a 10-year birth group; in other words, each of the bars represents individuals born during that same 10-year period. By comparing these bars we can identify approximate proportion of each

Indigenous forcibly had to share their land, the growth of population and development that Australia has experienced is unprecedented. Currently Australia’s population stands at 24 Million and it is on a continuous rise, due to a combination of both, a high birth rate and a significant number of immigrants per annum. As a multicultural nation, the immigration intake is a major factor, and is said to have generated just over half (56%) of population growth, this is due to the demand to settle permanently

having longer life due to economic well-being, better nutrition and improvement of medical facilities. Ageing population has entailed an increasing share of old persons in the population. However, longer life expectancy has resulted in the ageing of population and has caused worldwide concerns of the problems it may consequently arouse. The two major reasons of the ageing population trend are the rising longevity and the decline of fertility rate. If the proportion of elderly people continues

Jack Goldstone’s New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends that Will Change the World establishes the four megatrends that population growth will have in the world’s development. He established that the change in the current economic status quo that will be shifting from developed countries to developing countries, all this due to the uneven increasing of the world’s population. He argued that the trend of industrialized countries on population growth is decreasing compared to developing countries

Europe’s Aging Population Europe provides a well-documented example of a developed region experiencing an aging population. Carone et al. (2005) say that over the coming decades, the number of people aged 65 and over in the EU is predicted to double, as a result the old age dependency ratio will change to 2:1, meaning that for every two people of working age there will be one aged 65 or older. The scale of the aging population is compounded by the region’s low fertility, with member states averaging

Demography of aging In 2017, the world population is at 7.5 billion people. China is the most populated country in whole world. It has “1.379 billion” (Google) people making it the largest populated country. China is also the most largest aging population making it have a high life expectancy and the high accelerating aging rate in the world (Zheng, 2012). China has advanced with technology and also with age. Only “three decades ago, only 5 percent of the populations was over 65; today, 123 million people